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Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary's The SandMan

Gaiman's legendary Sandman series is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most imaginative in comic book history, and over the past few decades word of a Sandman film has been kicked around harder than Satan's hacky-sack, but it almost saw fruition in the late 90s when Roger Avery (co-writer with Quentin Tarantino on Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs) was set to direct a version of the film that had an enthusiastic thumbs up from Gaiman himself. Unfortunately, producers wanted a more generic action flick that Avery had no interest in creating, so the script went through various incarnations that transformed the original source material into a mere shell of it's former awesomeness. We're glad the world was spared a crappy Sandman, but Avery's more than likely would have done it justice.

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